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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Display Screen tips for Planning Analytics / TM1 dimensions elements in Cognos Report studio

When developing Cognos Framework Manager models we can add Screen tips for query subjects and query items. This is very helpful for business users as we can clarify usage for certain elements. When creating/republishing Cognos packages with TM1 cu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

GW Dispatcher URI True Failover

We use Cognos BI and TM1 to provide critical financial reporting and planning to our C level and stock stakeholders. Providing a stable environment is key to Cognos continued success and adoption within the company. However with the BI GW not forw...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customizable 'Unable to Authenticate Page'

In Cognos configuration we've set the "Restrict access to members of the built-in namespace?" property to true. Now, for users that don't belong to a group or role they get this message "Unable to authenticate. The provided credentials are restric...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create portal shortcuts to 'Other' Elements

The Analysis Studio package (and other items under the Cognos Analytics 'New->Other' menu option, have been marked for deprecation, but there are still many customers that wish to access this functionality. In previous versions of Cognos, users...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active Report calcuation issues - Case#TS002110638

IBM Analyst has request to raise a RFE for TS002110638 as it's a limitation, please check and fix it ASAP
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove underline from text objects (especially for Hyperlink class)

I would like to have the option in the Report Module to remove underlines from text objects (Hyperlink classes). As of now we only have the option to enable underline for text objects.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization to fix the header size in Cognos dashboard or to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is there. Rows are getting resized automatically to fit in the defined box. But If there is no data available then header automatically resized to the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to customize the welcome message of the homepage.

Hope to customize the welcome message of the homepage.Currently is possible only modify the colors of the application bar and the navigation bar, set the corporate title that is shown on the home page.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration